Montgomery Street

Montgomery Street is a major thoroughfare in Jersey City, New Jersey, running from Exchange Place on the Hudson River waterfront to the east to West Side Avenue to the west. After the American Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton attempted to develop Downtown Jersey City and laid out the city squares and streets that still characterize the neighborhood. Montgomery Street, like many other streets, was named after an American Revolutionary War hero, this one being Richard Montgomery, who was killed at the Battle of Quebec in 1775. In 1858, the Pennsylvania Railroad depot was built along Montgomery Street, and the upper income Van Vorst Park neighborhood was also situated along Montgomery Street and Jersey Avenue.